My own experience with C++ is mainly limited to game development since the base classes in UE4 are written in and can be extended with C++ (as is most of the en

My own experience with C++ is mainly limited to game development since the base classes in UE4 are written in and can be extended with C++ (as is most of the engine itself). Unreal has a crazy bolted on reflection system implemented with its own pre-processor to work around the lack of reflection in C++. Otherwise C++ makes sense there I think because (a) performance is extremely good which is important for games, 3D games in particular; and (b) games are the type of program which can often benefit from OO design and inheritance. I'm a long time C casual who only recently made the leap to C++, but I know what you mean when you say two C++ codebases can have vastly different styles. Of course that is true of many languages but it does appear to be amplified with C++.